Mamie Van Doren Quotes

#1. My best asset is my brain. Without my brain, I don't think the rest of me would be too hot.

Mamie Van Doren

#2. Whence it is evident that the perfect religion committed to us by the teaching of Christ is not new and strange, but, if the truth must be spoken, it is the first and the true religion. This may suffice for this subject.

Eusebius

#3. I came to Hollywood determined to follow in Jean Harlow's footsteps, but I was determined not to die young. My hope was to endure. And endure I have.

Mamie Van Doren

#4. He's the type of man who will end up dying in his own arms.

Mamie Van Doren

#5. It is possible that blondes also prefer gentlemen.

Mamie Van Doren

#6. I took my acting very seriously. I did over 40 films, and naturally, some of them were called B-movies because the woman was at the top of the billing. Women couldn't star in their own movies.

Mamie Van Doren

#7. I have never been a Marilyn Monroe wannabe. I have always been happy in my own skin!

Mamie Van Doren

#8. Raising children with an emphasis on intrinsic rewards is not a technique, a method or a trick to get them to do what the parent wants them to by subtler means, but a way of life, a way of living with children with real respect for their intelligence and for their being.

Mamie Van Doren

#9. I never wanted to be a trophy wife. I wanted to make it on my own. I didn't want to depend on a man.

Mamie Van Doren

#10. I've married a few people I shouldn't have, but haven't we all?

Mamie Van Doren

#11. I didn't feel like I was meant to be a nurse or a secretary.

Mamie Van Doren

#12. They'd retreated to the country with two passports only. From the outside it looked like death. People could pound the walls all they wanted, but they'd never find the door. Nobody could guess at the gardens inside.

Janet Fitch

#13. I've never acted my age and I never will. It's just the way I've always been.

Mamie Van Doren

#14. Marilyn Monroe, Jayne Mansfield and I were so different from each other. I was doing very young movies, and Marilyn, who was ahead of me, was doing a lot of homogenized movies that weren't quite as wild as the ones I was doing. Jayne was more of a character of herself.

Mamie Van Doren

#15. ROSE FELT LIKE she had a neon sign flashing over her head - looking for a one night stand, only sex gods need apply.

Mary J. Williams

#16. Looking at her, I could imagine for a moment what it would be like to be in love - to be bewitched by someone in all their forms.

Karen Hattrup

#17. I studied really hard. But Hollywood never appreciated my talent.

Mamie Van Doren

#18. He is a king, whatever you or he or anyone else says, and a king or queen must dispense justice without fear of enemies or favor for friends. Anyone who does that has to be hard. Mother

Robert Jordan

#19. I want to make it clear as Premier and as local member that I strongly support the Renewable Energy Target. Our message to the Federal Government and to Canberra is stick to the Renewable Energy Target.

Denis Napthine